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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;line-break:after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Of all of the neo-liberal propaganda garbage I have seen in the last several years, this statement has to be one of the worst !<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David J.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 04, 2018 9:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> Peace Discuss<br><b>Cc:</b> Bill Strutz<br><b>Subject:</b> [Peace-discuss] My quest for personal identity<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Help! I’m not sure what to believe or to do, & who to vote for, because I’m uncertain which tribe I belong to. But it occurred to me that surely the brilliant, all-knowing pundits on this site can help me with my identity crisis. </span><span style='font-size:14.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(1) Am I one of “the People”? (Are you? How do you know?) Who has the right to decide this? And on what basis? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(2) Am I a member of the “Working Class”?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Poor me, I was born on a dark & stormy night in a cabin in the deepest woods of central Illinois. Both my parents were educated only thru the 8th grade. We were sharecropping farmers throughout my childhood. We never could afford to have any dental work done. I milked cows before & after school every day while in high school. I still have dirt under my fingernails & a red neck due to sunburn from field work (cultivating corn, loading & stacking bales of hay on a wagon pulled behind an IH twine-tie baler — over 1,000 bales one day). I went to a third-rate college, the cheapest one available at the time. I was drafted for two years in the US Army, serving at Fort Carson CO, Aberdeen Proving Ground MD, & Fort Myer VA, rising from the lowest enlisted rank to the next-lowest (PFC?). <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>So am I not <b>in fact clearly & obviously</b> an oppressed victim of society, capitalism, wage slavery, class bias and middle-class morality? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Or am I ineligible to be a member pf the WC because of my bad attitude, disingenuous statements, erroneous opinions & obvious lack of wisdom & virtue, such as true, authentic members of the WC are said to have? Unless, of course, they have been misled & victimized by FAKE NEWS & the vicious lies & nonsense of the Deep State conspiracy of the American Political Elite (APE) which controls the Mainstream Media (MSM), etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I’m looking forward to deliverance & enlightenment from this site’s resident arbiters of TRUTH and REALITY when they pronounce upon the real issue, the real question, & the real reason for my perplexity. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>